Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children
Amnesty International Report on Ireland's Abortion Laws: Discussion
5:20 pm
Mr. Salil Shetty:
Amnesty International's position on that is very clear. It is along the lines of international human rights standards. First, decriminalisation of abortion under all circumstances. Second, at a minimum, we are calling for abortion in the case of physical and mental risks to the health of the woman; Ireland already has the risk to life provision. We are calling for it to be available in situations of incest, rape and sexual assault and in the context of foetal impairment, severe or fatal. That is what we have said in the report. I will pass over to Mr. O'Gorman.
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